Cultural Centers – Leaving – Spiraling – Hanging – Exploration – Delivery – Seeing – and Idyll, a story, Part Two of Five (The following is a work of satire. The people and events depicted, including those based on real people and events, are all entirely fictional.) ***** Read the first installment of Idyll here. *I’ve always…

Root and Branch – Optimization – A Ride – Inclination – Keepsakes – and Idyll, a story, Part One of Five (The following is a work of satire. The people and events depicted, including those based on real people and events, are all entirely fictional.) ***** The first volume of Notes for a Mythology will be ending…

Rivers – Acquisition – Marketing – Tunnels – Forces – Cunning Work – and The Histories, a story (The following is a work of satire. The people and events depicted, including those based on real people and events, are all entirely fictional.) ***** The short story above is a rather self-indulgent attempt to recreate some of…

A Strand – Salvage – Ways, Up and Down – New Cities – Golden Land – Twins – and The Hole in the Middle, a story  (The following is a work of satire. The people and events depicted, including those based on real people and events, are all entirely fictional.) ***** The rest of Theophiles can…

Halcyon – Visiting – Oceangoing – Preservation – Linearity – Islands – One More – and Life and Opinions, a story (The following is a work of satire. The people and events depicted, including those based on real people and events, are all entirely fictional.) ***** Most of my own reading this summer was done at…

Progression – Signs – Craving – Passage – Judging, a story, Part Five of Five – and judging a story (The following is a work of satire. The people and events depicted, including those based on real people and events, are all entirely fictional.) ***** In the months since I first began Judging, critic and essayist…

Possession – Breaking Apart – Gathering – Movement – Judging, a story, Part Four of Five – and some very brief thoughts on art and politics (The following is a work of satire. The people and events depicted, including those based on real people and events, are all entirely fictional.) ***** As I’ve mentioned before, yet…

Diversion – Leads – A Hunch – Entanglement – Importing, Exporting – Beasts – and Judging, a story, Part Three of Five (The following is a work of satire. The people and events depicted, including those based on real people and events, are all entirely fictional.) ***** I’ve been thinking a lot about early comic and…

Seeds – An Outfit – The Interior – Questioning – Stones – Concentration – and Judging, a story, Part Two of Five (The following is a work of satire. The people and events depicted, including those based on real people and events, are all entirely fictional.) ***** A lot my work is about how we engage…

Distance – Sound and Vision – Assessment – Diversion – Landing – Fullness – Variations on a Theme – Recognition – and Judging, a story, Part One of Five (The following is a work of satire. The people and events depicted, including those based on real people and events, are all entirely fictional.) ***** As…